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'TLOWEN. I COMBINED SHOOT BOARD AND SQUARING BOX. No. 531,215. Patented Dec. 18,1894.

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THOMAS OWEN, OF HOUSTON, TEXAS, ASSIGNOR OF TWO-TI-IIRDS TO LEONARD W. MARTYR AND HILLIARY ELDRIDGE, OF SAME PLACE.

COMBINED SHOOT-BOARD AND SQUARlNG-BOX.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 531,215, dated December is, 189 1..

Application filed May 5,1394.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, THOMAS OWEN, a citizen of the United States, residing at Houston, in the county of Harris and State of Texas, 5 have invented a new and useful Combined Shoot-Board and Squaring-Box, of which the following is a specification- 7 This invention relates to a combined shoot board and squaring box for shaving and squaring the edges of stereotype and other printing plates; and to this end the invention contemplates a device of this character that will be of an exceedingly simple and comparatively inexpensive construction, while at the same time providing for an easy and accurate manipulation of the plates being operated upon. With these and other objects in view, which will readily appear as the nature of the invention is better understood, the same consists in the novel construction, combination, and arrangement of parts hereinafter more fully described, illustrated, and claimed.

In the accompanying drawings:Figure l is a perspective View of acombined shoot board and squaring box constructed in accordance with this invention. Fig. 2 is a similar view of the attached guide bar separated from the table board. Fig. 3 is a transverse sectional view on the line ccm of Fig. 1. Fig. 4 is a similar view on the line g g of Fig. 1.

Referring to the accompanying drawings, 1 designates a flat smoothly planed hard wood table board that may be made of any convenient width and length,to provide for properly supporting the stereotype or other printing plate while being operated upon, and said table board 1, is adapted to have secured on one side edge thereof the ofi-lstanding guide bar 2. The off-standing guide bar 2, consists of a bar of wood or metal and is provided at its opposite ends on one side with theintegral spacing blocks or projection 3, that rest against the side edge of the board 1, to space the main portion of the guide bar 2 from the table board 1, thereby forming atone side edge of the table board a longitudinal plane groove 4, that is adapted to accommodate an ordinary side or shoot plane which slides 50 therein as it operates upon the edge of the plate that is held on the table board 1. The

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opposite block ends of the guide bar 2, are adapted to receive the fastening screws 5,

that pass there-through and into the board 1,

to provide means for conveniently connecting the guide bar to the table board.

Arranged transversely on the table board 1, near one end thereof and extending from edge toedge, is the sectional end rest bar 6, provided at one side edge with the upwardly disposed rest flange 7, that forms a rest against which the printing plate is held while being operated upon by the mitering saw and the shoot plane, and said rest bar comprises the separate sections 8 and 9 of difierent lengths and terminating short of each other at their adjacent ends. At their adjacent ends the said bar sections 8 and 9 are provided with the upturned parallel guide plates 10, that are spaced sufficiently apart to form a saw guide there-between, to accommodate one end of an ordinary mitering saw that is employed inv connection with the herein-described board to square off the plates, that are to be shaved by the plane. By reason of the difierent lengths of the rest bar sections the parallel saw guide plates 10, are disposed at one side of the center of the board toward the plane groove 4, in order to conveniently dispose the saw for properly operating upon the plate, and said sectional rest bar is preferably secured on top of the board 1, by means of the screws 11 passing there-through and into the board.

Arranged in alignment with the parallel guide plates 10, is a second pair of intermediate saw guide plates 12, that are arranged parallel with each other and slightly separated to form asaw guide slot 13, there-between, as well as being aligned parallel with the plates 10, and said intermediate guide plates 12, are provided at their lower ends with the integral right angularly disposed attaching flanges 14;, that rest fiat on top of the board 1, and are secured thereto by the screws 15.

By reason of the alignment of the guides 10 and 12, an ordinary miter saw may be read ily placed there-between so as to operate upon a stereotype or other printing plate that is held against the rest bar 6, to provide means 100 for properly squaring such plate, and by then moving the plate up to the groove 4, the same may be operated upon by the side plane to shave oit the edge thereof, thus combining means for squaring and shaving a printing plate quickly and accurately.

5 Changes in the form, proportion and the minor details of construction may be resorted to Without departing from the principle or sacrificing any of the advantages of this invention.

Having thus described the invention, what is claimed, and desired to be secured by Letters Patent, is-

1. In a combined shoot board and squaring box, the table board provided at one side edge termediate saw guide mounted on the table board in longitudinal alignment with the saw guide of the rest bar, substantially as set forth.

3. In a combined shoot board and squaring box, the table board provided atone side edge with a plane slide groove, a transverse sectional rest bar arrangedon the board near one end and comprising flanged aligned sections terminating short of each other at their adjacent ends and provided at such ends with parallel upwardly disposed saw guide plates, and a pair of intermediate saw guide plates arranged on the table board in longitudinal alignment with the guide plates of the rest bar and provided with attaching flanges at their lower ends resting flat on and secured to the top of the table board, substantially as set forth.

In testimony that I claim the foregoing as my own I have hereto aifixed my signature in the presence of two witnesses.

THOMAS OWEN.

Witnesses:

EARNEST E. MARTYR, J NO. H. RUBY. 

